TiVo this! can’t-miss geek movies on TV, 07.31-08.06

Mon Jul 31 2006, 10:08am | comments off

I scour the skeds so you don’t have to, and point out the best geek highlights of the week in some unexpected places: Turner Classic Movies and The Sundance Channel, which show films uncut and uninterrupted (and sometimes in letterbox). But ya gotta turn to The SciFi Channel once in a while, too, commercials and editing be damned — there’s nothing like geeking out in front of the tube with built-in breaks for munchie refills and snark attacks.

(All times are Eastern. Times between midnight and 5:59am actually refer to the previous date. In other words, 2am Saturday really means the overnight twilight zone between Saturday night and Sunday morning. Links in movie titles go to my review.)MONDAY 07.31

10:30AM: The Cocoanuts
12:15PM: The Big Store
1:45PM: Go West
3:15PM: At the Circus
4:45PM: Room Service
6:15PM: A Night at the Opera
8:00PM: Animal Crackers
9:45PM: Monkey Business
11:15PM: Horse Feathers
12:30AM: Duck Soup
1:45AM: A Day at the Races

THURSDAY 08.03

11:00PM: Tremors. The spice… No, wait, that was the other movie about the giant worms. Damn.

9:00PM: Timeline. Very bad and very funny movie about Paul Walker sent back to the Middle Ages by Bill Gates, who accidentally invented a time machine while trying to revolutionize overnight shipping. I’m so not kidding.